The Department of Summoning (召喚科, Shōkan-ka?) is a subordinate Department to the Department of Spiritual Evocation of the Clock Tower branch of the Mage's Association.
History[]
Not part of the Twelve Departments of the Clock Tower, it is a subordinate organization under the Department of Spiritual Evocation. The Dean is Rocco Belfeban, having held the position for at least fifty years as of 2004, but the exact duration is unknown among modern Magi.[1] He acts as a Proxy Lord for Spiritual Evocation as well.[2]
Within the World of Fate/Apocrypha, the circumstances of the Subcategory Holy Grail Wars lead the Department to a status of greater renown. As the Association began to form countermeasures to the proliferation of the Holy Grail Wars throughout the world, every Department that had any slight link to the process of Servant summoning made a scramble to benefit from the situation. Due to the continuing conflicts even after the end of each Holy Grail War, the Clock Tower decided that "everything related to Servants of the Holy Grail War" would fall under the purview of Summoning and entrusted the responsibility to an "assured conservative." It was later recommended by the reformist faction that Lord El-Melloi II, survivor of the largest of the Subcategory Holy Grail Wars, take the position instead of Rocco, though El-Melloi II's held a personal neutral stance and the El-Melloi faction held a conservative stance. The two of them, aware of the threat of the Holy Grail Wars, held matching views on prioritizing solving the situation rather than worrying about the profit of their respective factions.[2]
Characteristics[]
Within the World of Fate/Apocrypha, Rocco works with Lord El-Melloi II and Bram Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri in preparing Masters and Catalysts for Servant summoning for the Great Holy Grail War.[1][3]
Members[]
- Rocco Belfeban - Dean
- Students who studied under the Department
- Flat Escardos (Started in the faculty, a few months later changed faculties)[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fate/Apocrypha Volume 1: Apocrypha: Great Holy Grail War - Chapter 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Rocco Belfaban [Person's name], p.190-191 [T] Rocco Belfaban [Person's name]
The dean of the Department of Summoning. The Department of Summoning is a subordinate organization to the Department of Spiritual Evocation, which ended up being regarded very highly only in the “Fate/Apocrypha” world. As you all already know, subspecies Holy Grail Wars are held all over the place in the “Apo” world, so the Association of Magi had to quickly form countermeasures. At first, every magecraft department even slightly linked to Servant summoning techniques were scrambling to reap the benefits before each other, causing ugly conflicts to continue even after a Holy Grail War ended, so it was decided to treat “everything related to Servants of the Holy Grail War” under the category of “summoning”, entrusting all responsibility to an assured conservative in the Association.
That conservative is this old man, Rocco Belfegan. Status-wise, he is effectively a “proxy Lord”. Of course, since there is a conservative faction, there is also a reformist faction, and they strongly recommended Lord El Melloi II, who survived the largest-scale subspecies Holy Grail War in history, for the position instead. (However, the El Melloi clan’s stance is conservative, and El Melloi II’s own position is neither conservative nor reformist, maintaining a complicatedly neutral stance.)
Fortunately, both of them are well aware of the threat of subspecies Holy Grail Wars, and their views match in that they prioritize resolving the situation over the gains for their respective factions.
Rocco is a collection maniac, and yet by contrast is quite sloppy with what he collects. He’s the type to be completely neglectful by using Mystic Codes that activate just by having them on hand. He has stated in quite a carefree manner, “It’s fine as long as I have just Mystic Codes that resist against curses”. No, it’s not fine. He doesn’t involve himself much with the students, so there are lots of rumors like “The old man’s private room is becoming more and more of an entirely different world every year” about him.ロッコ・ベルフェバン【人名】
- ↑ Fate/Apocrypha Volume 3: Triumphal Return of the Saint - Chapter 4
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 4 - Chapter 12: Day 2, Daytime "Genius Was Not Built in a Day; All Magecraft Leads to Disaster"